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To draw ellipse or circle shapes and paths.

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Q: What is the purpose of ellipse tool in Photoshop?
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Where is the elliptical marquee tool in Photoshop?

In photoshop the oval tool is called the ellipse tool. The keyboard shortcut for all the shape tools is U (press the U key). It will highlight the currently selected shape tool in the tool bar on the left of the photoshop window. If the ellipse tool is not allready showing just click the little triangle in the lower right of the shape tool to bring up all the shape tool options, find the ellipse tool and click it. There is also an ellipse (oval) selection tool called the elliptical marquee tool. The keybaord shortcut is M for the marquee tools. To find it use the same method as above.


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Choose Ellipse tool from toolbox, hold down Shift key, click and drag.


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I cant find the shapes tool in photoshop CS4 so how do you use shapes?

The custom shapes tool can be found in the Photoshop toolbox. You will find it on the same tool icon as the rectangle tool along with ellipse, polygon, line. The 'custom' shapes tool is at the bottom of the list and you then need to select a shape from the shapes palette. Once selected, the shape can be applied as a shape layer, path or fill pixels. Set the color via the foreground color option.


What is the pucker tool in Photoshop?

In Photoshop, the pucker tool is part of the Liquify tool. The pucker tool is used to move pixels towards the center of the brush area.


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Photoshop Lightroom does not have such a tool. Anyway you can use external editing software like Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. See related links for more details.


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